Talk to Everyone

My mom's theory through this entire Type 1 Journey has been TALK TO EVERYONE!! Her theory was tell everyone what we are going through in case someone has something incredible to share with us. We won't know if we don't keep seeking out the knowledge. In the beginning Dustin was a little hesitant about this, and I think this was mainly because the more we talked to everyone, the more it made this real. And that was a hard thing to accept.

A few weeks ago at our small church class at church they passed around a sign up sheet for various couples to stand at a table before each service to tell others about this awesome class that we are going to (I was going to do an entire post today on what we learned today about marriage, but this is too exciting that I am bursting at the seams to write this. So I will save that for another day). Dustin really wanted for us to sign up, and the first week that they asked for volunteers I told him "no" since we were so new to the class it wasn't quite yet in my comfort zone. But the following week they asked again for volunteers, Dustin asked me if I would be interested and I thought "what do we have to lose."

So we showed up early this morning and started talking with our small church leader. He asked what is going on in our lives and we shared our Type 1 Journey. He listened and then said.. "I have to get you connected to my daughter-in-law. My granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in the last year. They met with one of the leading endocrinologists in the Valley and didn't want to accept that insulin was the only solution. Long story short, our granddaughter is now living without Type 1 diabetes and is the normal ranges for everything." As you can imagine our eyes lit up. He got us in touch with his daughter-in-law immediately by email, and a series of emails has gone back and forth all day. Can you believe her daughter is no creating normal levels of insulin on her own? She told us to get in touch with a certain doctor in the valley (a naturopath). She told us to immediately get an appointment with him, and then she would set up a time to talk with us about food and how to live this out in our day to day lives. We mentioned to her that we had already met with another naturopath, who will remain nameless, and she said that they also had talked to this individual and she was far to strict/radical for them. This again made us thing that there still may be another option!! In the meantime she recommended that we read Diabetic Solutions by Dr. Bernstein. A book that we purchased months ago and has been collecting dust on our bookshelf since. Isn't that embarrassing??

Over the past many months we have been praying for another solution. Praying for God to open a door if there is another route that he has intended for us to go on. We are not saying that this is in fact His plan for us, but we are excited that He has opened another door. We are willing to try anything to avoid being insulin dependent for the rest of our lives. We will be calling the doctor that she recommended first thing tomorrow. And if they are closed for the holiday we will call back again first thing on Tuesday!

If you are interested to read more about her journey, and the road she is traveling just go to her blog.